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What's the difference? To me, DRM is about controlling what the user can do with your software, and anti-cheat seems to match that description.
by persnickety 3y ago
What's the difference? To me, DRM is about controlling what the user can do with your software, and anti-cheat seems to match that description.
- coldpie 3y agoAnti-cheat serves a useful purpose for customers. Cheating is a real problem that can destroy online games and ruin fun for a game's customers. While anti-cheat can introduce its own problems, it does have real benefits for users. DRM has no benefit for legitimate users, it can only harm them.
- saintfire 3y agoGiven that product keys and activation servers are forms of DRM and not anti-cheat. I'd say that anti-cheat is effectively a subset of DRM, as it prevents unauthorized changes to the binary, typically.